ST. CLAIRSVILLE — The Belmont County Fair Rodeo saw the end of an era Thursday night. Union Local High School sophomore Eme Martin spent the evening retiring her longtime horse, Blitz, during the fair’s rodeo. Blitz is a 28-year-old trick-riding horse owned by Martin’s mentor, Union ...
WHEELING — Today marks the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks via airliners on New York City's World Trade Center, the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania — and many Ohio Valley residents are likely remembering what they were doing at that moment and how it impacted them then and still today. Bridgeport resident Larry Barnes, commander of American Legion Post 159, said on 9/11 he was working for a company, Shawn, Stone & Webster, that did maintenance on nuclear power plants on the East Coast. He was working at a plant just 30 ...
ST. CLAIRSVILLE – Bids have opened for the new Belmont County Animal Shelter. On Wednesday, the Belmont County Commissioners passed a motion to advertise for bids for the new facility. “Today really is, in a way, a landmark day for us and a happy day for us because we're going to go out ...
The eight years Jeremy Harrison served in the Army Reserves and on active duty in the Middle East were split by the events of Sept. 11, 2001. A resident of Glen Dale, Harrison enlisted in 1997, not too long after he had graduated from Wheeling Park High School, and was honorably discharged in ...
WHEELING — The Wheeling Military Banner Program held its final ceremonies of the year Thursday honoring two city natives who were killed in action during World War II. The two new banners are among a total of 437 military banners that are on display throughout the city as part of the ...
Twenty-five years ago today, what many consider to be the worst domestic terror attack in U.S. history took place as a series of four coordinated strikes by al-Qaida, using commercial airliners, resulted in the destruction of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, damage to the ...
